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The Lawless Roads

Name: The Lawless Roads
Author: Graham Greene

The Lawless Roads is a travel account by Graham Greene, based on his 1938 trip to Mexico, to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularization and how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Plutarco Elías Calles via the uprisings known as the Cristero War.

“The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe — but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)